Educational Marginalization of Muslims in Uganda: Historical Perspective, Legal Implications & Challenges
Educational marginalization is the major factor for the social, cultural, economic, and political marginalization of any community in any country. Literacy and educational levels of Muslims in Uganda are far below that of their Christian counterparts. Muslims in Africa have been marginalized in form...
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Islamic University in Uganda
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| description | Educational marginalization is the major factor for the social, cultural, economic, and political marginalization of any community in any country. Literacy and educational levels of Muslims in Uganda are far below that of their Christian counterparts. Muslims in Africa have been marginalized in formal education since the colonial days. Anecdotal evidence suggests a nearly ubiquitous gap in Muslim educational attainment across Uganda. While the magnitude of inequality in Muslim educational attainment in Uganda has been changing over time, limited scholarly attention has been given to this issue. Against this backdrop, this position paper analyses the historical and current perspective of educational marginalization of Muslims in Uganda, its legal implications & measures to mitigate this marginalization, and challenges to mitigating the marginalization. The paper advocates for the need to take affirmative action in favour of Muslims to address past and present educational injustices. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-f2f1a1d90b454b7797eb6abf9710a9cd2023-03-06T08:01:27ZengIslamic University in UgandaInterdisciplinary Journal of Education2616-90882616-90962018-05-01118596https://doi.org/10.53449/ije.v1i1.39Educational Marginalization of Muslims in Uganda: Historical Perspective, Legal Implications & ChallengesBadru Musisi0Muhammad M Kiggundu1Makerere University KampalaMakerere University KampalaEducational marginalization is the major factor for the social, cultural, economic, and political marginalization of any community in any country. Literacy and educational levels of Muslims in Uganda are far below that of their Christian counterparts. Muslims in Africa have been marginalized in formal education since the colonial days. Anecdotal evidence suggests a nearly ubiquitous gap in Muslim educational attainment across Uganda. While the magnitude of inequality in Muslim educational attainment in Uganda has been changing over time, limited scholarly attention has been given to this issue. Against this backdrop, this position paper analyses the historical and current perspective of educational marginalization of Muslims in Uganda, its legal implications & measures to mitigate this marginalization, and challenges to mitigating the marginalization. The paper advocates for the need to take affirmative action in favour of Muslims to address past and present educational injustices.https://www.journals.iuiu.ac.ug/index.php/ije/article/view/7educational marginalizationhistorical perspectivelegal implicationschallenges |
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| title | Educational Marginalization of Muslims in Uganda: Historical Perspective, Legal Implications & Challenges |
| title_full | Educational Marginalization of Muslims in Uganda: Historical Perspective, Legal Implications & Challenges |
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| title_short | Educational Marginalization of Muslims in Uganda: Historical Perspective, Legal Implications & Challenges |
| title_sort | educational marginalization of muslims in uganda historical perspective legal implications challenges |
| topic | educational marginalization historical perspective legal implications challenges |
| url | https://www.journals.iuiu.ac.ug/index.php/ije/article/view/7 |
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